A game master's newsletter on running Tolkien-based tabletop campaigns, especially with Free League's The One Ring. Recent issues cover the in-world calendar of Arda and how time affects races and NPCs, and how the author designs evil and the role of Sauron versus Morgoth.
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A GM's essays, also available as video, on verisimilitude and setting-driven design in tabletop roleplaying games, with a focus on in-person campaign play. Issues mix practical GM advice, convention reports and reflections on running long campaigns.
Literary criticism and book reviews of adventure fiction, drawing on Northrop Frye's theory of modes and forms and linking contemporary fantasy to the tabletop RPG old-school revival. It also hosts an archive of John J. Reilly's The Long View.
Short, personal essays on worldbuilding, tabletop roleplaying games, fantasy storytelling and media like anime and video games. Readers get a writer's critical reflections plus occasional news about his own fiction and interviews.
A bilingual (English and German) newsletter exploring roleplaying as an activity and Forged in the Dark games such as Blades in the Dark. It offers reflective essays on shared fiction and GM experience, plus answers to reading club questions about the setting of Doskvol.
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